CANADA: The transgender advisor to the Minister for Women is facing backlash after claiming trans-identified males have no advantages over women in sports. Nathanielle Morin himself once won a women's race, beating the fastest woman by over 5 minutes.https://t.co/5XcOynrson — REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) February 7, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full story here.

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From the Daily NK: A young North Korean woman was publicly executed by firing squad in late January in Sinuiju, North Pyongan province, following her conviction for murder, Daily NK has learned. The execution was reportedly carried out in public as a deterrent amid rising violent crime linked to economic hardship. According to a source…

David Patrikarakos at UnHerd rubbishes the Trump Gaza plan, but then equivocates somewhat at the end. His conclusion: But if this idea is dangerous, impetuous and unlikely to see the light of day, the impulse behind it (even though borne from instinct rather than design) — to think about a seemingly unsolvable problem in a…

Helen Joyce reviews Victoria Smith's new book UnKind at The Critic: "What about men?” Anyone who runs something solely for women — a women’s centre, a course for female leaders, International Women’s Day — gets used to being asked this question.  In recent years, the spread of trans ideology has strengthened this assumption that anything…

From the Telegraph: Lego can be anti-LGBT, the Science Museum has said. A self-guided museum tour on “stories of queer communities, experiences and identities” includes a display of Lego bricks alongside a guide stating the plastic blocks may reinforce the idea that heterosexuality “is the norm”. The tour, devised by a Gender and Sexuality Network…

Red Cross: Humanitarian bystander of the year ft. @ShutupLyle pic.twitter.com/kxdBjGgG2t — ארץ נהדרת (@Eretz_Nehederet) February 6, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

From MEMRI TV: British-Palestinian academic Ghada Karmi praised Hamas during her speech at the Islamic Human Rights Council (IHRC) Genocide Memorial Day on January 19, 2025. She said that she would like to “pay tribute to Hamas,” which has been “completely demonized.” Karmi said that Israel cannot be accommodated or reformed, nor could it be…

This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous. Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical… — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 6, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: Gender ideology…

Majority of Americans believe biological males should not be allowed in women’s sport. But Democrats’ failure to see which way the wind is blowing has just handed Trump the type of photo op money cannot buy pic.twitter.com/Knnm2lmkEP — Oliver Brown (@oliverbrown_tel) February 5, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Added: Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s…